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牌
pái
1. mahjong tile
2. playing card
3. game pieces
4. signboard
5. plate
6. tablet
7. medal
8. CL:[[片<piàn>]], [[個|个<gè>]], [[塊|块<kuài>]]
Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 12 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

牌
pái
card, game piece; placard, signboard, tablet
HSK 4 12 丶

Compound Words (20)

冒牌
màopái
fake
卡牌
kǎpái
playing card
叫牌
jiàopái
to bid (bridge and similar card games)
名牌
míngpái
famous brand
HSK 5
和牌
húpái
to win in mahjong
品牌
pǐnpái
brand name
大牌
dàpái
strong card
将牌
jiàngpái
trump (suit of cards)
厂牌
chǎngpái
brand (of a product)
打牌
dǎpái
to play mahjong or cards
招牌
zhāopai
signboard
挂牌
guàpái
lit. to hang up a plate
摘牌
zhāipái
to delist (a traded security)
摸牌
mōpái
to draw a tile (at mahjong)
摊牌
tānpái
to lay one's cards on the table
旗牌
qípái
flag or banner
标牌
biāopái
marked price
桥牌
qiáopái
contract bridge (card game)
壳牌
Qiàopái
see [[殼牌公司|壳牌公司<Qiàopáigōngsī>]]
洗牌
xǐpái
to shuffle cards

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
1,260
Word Frequency Rank
1,446 of 84,292

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